Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

hawthorn.edu

Hawthorn University

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

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After an extensive analysis and thoughtful deliberation, the Hawthorn University Board of Governors ceased Hawthorn University operations at the end of 2021.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hawthorn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hawthorn.edu performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.684

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hawthorn.edu

200 ms

hawthorn.edu

322 ms

style.css

355 ms

customizer.min.css

21 ms

style(1).css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Hawthorn.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) belongs to the original domain Hawthorn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

531.9 kB

After Optimization

486.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Hawthorn.edu main page is 531.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 242.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 9.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 28.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 242.3 kB
  • After minification 240.0 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Hawthorn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 103.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 141.7 kB
  • After minification 141.3 kB
  • After compression 132.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Hawthorn.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (81%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hawthorn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hawthorn.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hawthorn.edu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hawthorn.edu SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

High

robots.txt is not valid

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hawthorn.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Hawthorn.edu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hawthorn. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: